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APPENDIX.
Description of the Proposed Route for a Railway from Bhamo to Têngyüeh compiled from the latest information.
Mileage of existing Road.
Locality.
Description.
Probable Distance by Railway.
Summary of Lieutenant Watts-Jones' Report, giving an Estimate of the Cost of Earthwork and Bridging.
Locality.
Bhamo Plain First gorge
Mong Na Plain.. Small gorge
Nantien Valley.. Ascent to Momein
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Length.
Rate per Mile.
Cost.
Miles. 20
Rupees.
15,000
Rupees. 3,00,000
24
70,000
16,80,000
35
10,000
3,50,000
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1,00,000
6,00,000
15
20,000
3,00,000
16
25,000
4,00,000
*116 miles for earthwork and
bridging.
36,30,000
018 18-30
Bhamo Ploiu..
Easy line as far as the Taiping River
18
In the valley of the
3
miles of a heavy work on sidelong ground
Taiping to Khalong
8
miles of less heary work on sidelong ground
5
#
Kha
30-16
Khalong Kha to Mui-
fang Kua
Mule track. Heary work. Road could probably
SMANSLAT
46-514
get a gradient of 1 iu 25 in length of 22 miles. Railway would require grenter length
1
To Kulikha On the Mule track on old cart road blocked by masses of
frontier
fallen rock round which mule track winds. Very heavy country. Superintending Engineer, Public Works Department, says, "there is nothing to touch it on the Zibingyi ghât or the G6kteik Gorge" (of the Mandalay-Lashio Railway)
25
7
513
Kulikha.
Total distance in British territory
44
64
NOTE--Lieutenant Watts-Jones does not state the gauge proposed.
Rough Estimate of the Cost of the Railway on the 2 ft. 6 in. Gauge suggested in the Note which accompanied Government of India Despatch of the 18th December, 1902,
80 miles of undulating country, al 1 a-laku a mile
40 miles of hilly country, at 1 lakh a mile
Total estimate
Rupees.
40,00,000
40,00,000
80,00,000
CHINESE TERRITORY,
0-10
69-81
Kulikha through Nam Very beary work. Average slope of hills 1 to 1
Sa gorge to Mansein- Kaun-ngai valley Through Ching En to
Kaun-ngai
10-49
49~~~69
Kantien hills, Nantien village at mile 65.
Paddy-land with occasional broken ground, Line has in many places to bug the hills to keep above flood level
At mile 57 is the "small gorge" mentioned by Lieutenant Watts-Jones. Mr. Dove, assistant engineer, who has examined it, says that it is impracticable for a road. The railway will have to seek a circuitous route through the bills, or go in for heavy tunneiling and galleries. It would be wise to allow for
Tabo valley to Hsin-bo- This length crosses the Lam Sung and Nam Hin
Rivers.
Lee
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Rough Estimate of the Cost of the Railway on the 2 ft. 6 in. Gauge framed by the Consulting Engineer for Railways, Burmah, and Based on the Information summarized in the opposite Column.
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Nature of Work.
Miles.
Rate.
Cost.
Rupees. Rupees.
In the Bhamo Plain
18
50,000
Kaunngai Valley
Miles.
26
West of Khalong kha
Tengyüeh plateau...
The work is described as free from difficulties, but
slope of hillside is 1 in 2
In the Taiping Valley
14
81-87
To the edge of the The mule track does a lot of zigzagging over heavy
plateau
ground at a gradient of 1 in 5. There is sup- posed to be a possible alternative rente for the railway, but in any case the work would be very heavy. The total rise is 1,260 feet; 10 miles would give an average of 1 in 40. Allow for other contingencies.,
Khalong kha to Maifang kha
25
Part of Kulikha to Mansein Plain
Part of Nantien Hills
Talo Valley
Rise to Tengyuek plateau
20
Maifang kha to Kulikha
12
87-91
To Têngyüch
Said to he comparatively easy
Total distance in Chinese territory.. Add distance in British territory
Total length of railway
Part of Kulikba to Mansein Plain
5
Part of Nantien Hills
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70,000
9,00,000 29,40,000
→
14
80,000
11,20,000
5
8
14
12
82
226
1,20,000
98,40,000
112
64
Total
20
170
2,00,000 40,00,000
1,07,000 1,88,00,000 approximate.
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NOTE-The information now received does not afford sufficient material for framing an estimate which can be relied on to be even roughly approximate to the eventual cost of the line. It only indicates that the country to be traversed is not nearly so easy for a railway as at first described. The figares now suggested are probably A minimum, and might be largely exceeded.
(Signed) J. E. DALLAS,
Officiating Consulting Engineer for Railways, Burmah.
Maymyo, April 28, 1904.
* Shown as 119 in printed Report.
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